Howard Moscoe fights for 'fair' parking tickets

Proving that it’s hard to take the politician out of a former politician, Howard Moscoe was back to fighting the good fight at City Hall on Monday. “The city has made it impossible to fight parking tickets,”

Mr. Moscoe opened, on a tour through the press gallery. At his side was Jay Kimel-Fleishman, a “distant relative” who has launched filemytickets.com, a service that waits in line to book a parking or traffic ticket court date, so you don’t have to.

He charges $7 to file a parking ticket and $12 for a traffic ticket. Mr. Kimel-Fleishman said he has “donated” no less than $10,000 to the city in tickets, and lost countless hours in lineups. “If the city is not going to provide a system to set up a trial date online, I’m going to be it,” he said.

“It really isn’t fair,” added Mr. Moscoe, who retired as Ward 15 councillor last year. “In most cities, you can book a court date online, and you don’t have to go through a rigamarole in order to do it.

It goes against natural justice. In Toronto, they screwed up natural justice.”